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In place of Simon's design, Pope's National Archives was to be a neoclassical temple befitting an institution dedicated to American history. [7] The site was already occupied by a prominent landmark, the Center Market. The building was demolished to make way for the archives building. [8]
Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...
It was formed by a bolide that struck the eastern shore of North America about 35.5 ± 0.3 million years ago, in the late Eocene epoch. It is one of the best-preserved "wet-target" impact craters in the world. [3] Continued slumping of sediments over the rubble of the crater has helped shape the Chesapeake Bay.
The United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), previously known as the National Weather Records Center (NWRC), in Asheville, North Carolina, was the world's largest active archive of weather data. In 2015, the NCDC merged with two other federal environmental records agencies to become the National Centers for Environmental Information ...
The Palisades fire and two other blazes nearby -- Eaton fire north of Pasadena and the Hurst fire in San Fernando Valley -- forced 70,000 Angelenos to abandon their homes and left at least five ...
The National Archives at Seattle is a regional facility of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Pacific Region located in Seattle, Washington.The archives building is situated in the Windermere neighborhood of Northeast Seattle, near Magnuson Park, and holds 56,000 cubic feet (1,600 m 3) of documents and artifacts.
If this past week in LA has taught me anything, ... Opinion - As America throws stones at LA’s rubble, Angelenos embrace connection. Brit Barron, opinion contributor. January 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM ...
Making of America (MoA) is a collaborative effort by Cornell University and the University of Michigan to digitize and make available a collection of primary sources relating to the development of U.S. infrastructure. The Making of America collection at Cornell contains close to a million pages from more than 250 monographs and almost 1000 serials.